Peter von Heydebreck

Peter von Heydebreck (1 July 1889-30 June 1934) was a Sturmabteilung (SA) leader of Nazi Germany.

Biography
Peter von Heydebreck was born on 1 July 1889 in Koslin, Pomerania, German Empire (present-day Koszalin, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland) to a family of Protestant Germans. He served in World War I, and after the war he founded a Freikorps unit, putting down the Third Silesian Uprising of 1921 at the Battle of Annaberg, earning hin the epithet "the Hero of Annaberg". He joined the Nazi Party's Sturmabteilung in the 1920s, making a career for himself, but on 30 June 1934 he was executed at Stadelheim Prison by the SS during the purge of the SA in the Night of the Long Knives by Adolf Hitler.